South By Southwest® Music News

Great news for all of the procrastinators out there ... SXSWedu has extended the deadlines for both LAUNCHedu and Playground applications through the weekend! This means, you now have until Sunday, November 9 before 11:59 pm CST to enter your startup for the LAUNCHedu competition or ...

2014 was a big year for hip-hop at the SXSW Music Festival, with established names and up-and-coming acts taking the stage multiple times throughout the week. It looks like another quality class of hip-hop young'uns are coming through Austin for SXSW 2015; get acquainted with a few of them...

Hip-hop has, for the most part, been a notorious “boys club” since the genre broke into the mainstream in the early 1990s, and this revelation is perhaps most prevalent in the male-dominated world of rap journalism.

At the 2015 SXSW Music Conference, four women in the field will discuss gender...

First emerging in the mid-1970s, punk music has been one of the most controversial yet thrilling genres of rock's history. Today's edition of Four on the Floor is dedicated to four up-and-coming bands who prove that the punk rock movement is still very much alive and kicking....